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13th October 2019, 08:51 #11
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Sorry, but no.
The aim of the motorsport is to go as fast as possible and one of the advantages of EVs is that you have a perfect chance to regulate the torque and its split on the wheels, i.e. it's much easier to have perfect traction with EV than with the combustion car (especially with purely mechanical one). Making them more spectacular means making them artifficially slower. Nobody would ever opt for that willingly.
I have been attending electric races for some time and I know people involved in design of such cars. My conclusion based on long term observation is that EV setting faster times than combustion car still looks and sounds as entertaining as a trolleybus.
EV sales have nearly nothing to do with motorsport. The people who buy EVs don't buy them becuase of Formula E or whatever electric series. Also very large part of these sales is purely becuase of government policy and subsidies.
Please don't even start about EV rally here in CZ. It's better to speak from perpective of other countries because here the rally audience is nearly 100% hostile to EV. Maybe if You come and see You wound not start with it...Stupid is as stupid does. Forrest Gump
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